Frank MOREY

(1840-1890)

MOREY, Frank, a
Representative from Louisiana; born in Boston, Mass., July 11,
1840; attended the public schools; moved to Illinois in 1857;
studied law; entered the Union Army in 1861 in the Thirty-third
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close
of the Civil War; settled in Louisiana in 1866 and engaged in
cotton planting and the insurance business; member of the State
house of representatives in 1868 and 1869; appointed a commissioner
to revise the statutes and codes of the State; commissioner to the
Vienna Exposition in 1873; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses; presented
credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fourth Congress and
served from March 4, 1869, to June 8, 1876, when he was succeeded
by William B. Spencer, who contested the election; moved to
Washington, D.C., and died there September 22, 1890; interment in
the Congressional Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present